Weapons of Mass Distraction
Year produced: 2005
Production code: 301a
Original U.S. air date: 10/4/2008
The one with Jenny's boyfriend... again.
"Weapons of Mass Distraction" contains examples of:
- Be Yourself: Parodied, as Brad tries to teach this as the episode's lesson. Jenny, having already learned this multiple times in the past, angerly tells Brad to shut it before firing a warning shot when he continued anyways.Brad: You should be proud of your robot powers! (dodges a shot from Jenny's blaster) Atta girl!
- Jerkass Realization: Jenny tears into The Old Weathered One for constantly interrupting her date with Travis... before realizing that her efforts were going to be All for Nothing considering his Technophobia and that the relationship was doomed no matter what.
- Technophobia: Travis has a bad case of this due to the factory accident his dad went through.
- Unexplained Recovery: Travis' dad seemed to be perfectly okay despite being maimed by factory machines in a flashback. They even say "he got better", dropping the former trope title. Potentially justified since we don't know how long ago the accident was.
- Weather Manipulation: The Old Weathered One can effortlessly create storms on a whim.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Travis break things up with Jenny not because of his Technophobia, but because he was disgusted by Jenny trying to prioritize their date over saving innocent lives.
There's No Place Like Homeschool
Year produced: 2005
Production code: 301b
Original U.S. air date: 10/4/2008
The one with Jenny being homeschooled.
"There's No Place Like Homeschool" contains examples of:
- Bad News in a Good Way: Jenny cheerfully announces that she'll be getting homeschooled to the rest of her peers, who stop in shock. Except Brit and Tiff.
- Bait-and-Switch: Shortly after Jenny returns to school, Razinski calls Nora to congratulate her on fixing Jenny's attitude problem and offers her a substitute teaching position. The next day, the substitute teacher arrives... and it turns out to be a hobo Jenny encountered at the beginning of the episode, going off on the same history tangent as Nora.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Jenny becomes intrigued by the concept of home-schooling if it means getting out of the standard routine, but soon goes insane from the extreme dedication Dr. Wakeman goes through to replicate the public school experience.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Dr. Wakeman always has a perfect counter to Jenny's attempts at cheating, whether through changing access ports, disrupting radio frequencies she's linked to, or through illegible handwriting.
- Disproportionate Retribution: A bully pulls a prank on Jenny by filling her locker with lose parts. Jenny responds by hurling him into a trash bin so hard, the school needed to call the fire department just to get him out.
- Mundane Utility: One of Dr. Wakeman's inventions revealed in this episode is the Holo-Chamber, able to create any virtual space. Apparently she didn't even consider using it for live history lessons until after Jenny brought it up and instead uses it to create a replica of Jenny's classroom.
- Running Gag: "It all started with a HUGE explosion!"
- Waxing Lyrical: When Dr. Wakeman brings up home schooling for the first time, Jenny takes the chance to reference Alice Cooper's "School's Out"Jenny: No more classrooms, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks!
